Speaking before a sell-out audience of policymakers, journalists and academics in Whitehall, Louise Richardson FAcSS, vice chancellor of the University of Oxford, said we must bridge the educational divide to prevent populism for threatening democracy

An online tool aimed at helping researchers demonstrate their work’s impact to policymakers has been launched by the Campaign for Social Science in collaboration with Cardiff University. While it's focused on Wales, the toolkit is seen as a template for working with other governments

'There isn’t one of the major health care conditions which isn’t related to human behavior,' says Susan Michie,the chair of the Health of People working group. Which leads to a very obvious policy and practice conclusion ...

A pending report from the Campaign for Social Science, titled, "The Health of People," will make the case about the importance of social and behavioral science to health policy and practice in Britain. A video from the report's contributors teases some of the arguments that will be made.

Expertise in governing has been under attack, argues Beth Simone Noveck, but not just in recent demagogic attacks on “the elites.” For years, she explains in the annual SAGE/Campaign for Social Science lecture delivered November 22 in London, the expertise of the populace has been structurally excluded from the levers of power.

The Campaign for Social Science welcomes the relative protection given to the science budget in the spending review, says its chair, James Wilsdon, but it’s premature to see this as a good outcome for the long term health of the UK’s research base.

Britain’s Campaign for Social Science has added eight new members to its board, including the recent director of the Nuffield Foundation and the chief executive officer of one of the country’s leading social research companies. The campaign, established by the Academy of Social Sciences in 2011, has a board of 18 members chaired by James […]

A recent panel drew social science advocates from three countries – Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States – to the same stage to discuss preserving the disciplines’ sometimes tenuous hold on support from policymakers

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